The resources listed herein are merely starting points. The library can provide many more resources specific to a particular topic. Many of the sources below are databases accessible via the Internet.

Catalogs and Union Catalogs

Online Catalog LibCat includes the materials (books, journals, videos, documents and other materials) that the Libraries hold. Be aware that there are groups of materials not included in the catalog: many government documents and microform sets that we own may not appear in LibCat.

WorldCat Catalog of books and journals, the contents of over 14,000 research libraries, mainly in North America. Anything found on WorldCat that is not available in Evans Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Services or Get it for me.

Literature Criticism and Reviews

MLA International Bibliography This database indexes sources on literature, linguistics and drama from 1963 to present. Also available in print back to 1920. While it indexes secondary literature, it may lead to other pertinent information on the topic. PB1 .M46 from 1920 to 1962; from 1963 to present, on the web.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature An electronic index of critical articles and book reviews on language and literature in English back to 1892. The print index of article citations on English language and literature covers published articles from 1920 to present. PB1 .A55

Wilson Indexes A collection of databases of article citations, on a variety of subjects from science to business to the social sciences. The web versions of Humanities Index, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature and Essay and General Literature Index will provide citations to literary criticism articles and book chapters. Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, AI3 .R48, continues Poole’s Index, AI3 .P7, covering periodical literature from 1800 to present. Essay and General Literature Index includes citations to articles and book chapters from 1900 to present, AI3 .E752. Humanities Index will provide citations to criticism articles in literature, including poetry, short fiction, drama and novels. The print indexes back to 1972. AI3 .H84

EBSCOHost (Academic Search Complete) is a collection of selected full-text periodicals and scholarly journals, U.S. and international newspapers, reference books and detailed pamphlets from a variety of disciplines.

PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) includes citations and selected full text from critical articles as well as book and performance review in humanities and social sciences journals from 1770 to 1993. This is the only electronic resource available that indexes back to the 1770s.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index are part of the Web of Knowledge, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. The online versions go back to 1982 while the paper version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Z5931 .A78 goes back to 1975, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Z7163 .S6 extends back to 1956.

Selected Internet Resources

Literary theory: A guide to critical theory resources on the Internet by Julie Roberson, Debora Richey, and Mona Kratzert, provides evaluative summary and links to useful scholarly resources on the Internet addressing critical theory.

Electronic Journals and Full-text Databases

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text resource including newspapers as well as popular, trade and scholarly publications in all areas from about 20 years to the present. It will have the full text of critical articles and reviews from current sources.

Project Muse and JSTOR are packages of electronic journals in the Humanities. They are among the more than 20,000 online titles to which the Libraries have access. Project Muse is a full-text collection of humanities journals from 1995 to present; JSTOR is a full-text collection of history, philosophy, economics, and political science journals from their conception (at times, from the 1700s) to present. These are also accessible via the E-Resource Locator on the Libraries' web site at http://library.tamu.edu.

Selected Resources

Lucy, Niall. Postmodern literary theory: an introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. PN94 .L83 1997

Payne, Michael. Reading theory: an introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993. PN81 .P39 1993

Handbook of critical theory, edited by David M. Rasmussen. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. B809.3 .H36 1996

Culler, Jonathan. Literary theory: a very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. *On Order

Eagleton, Terry. Literary theory: an introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. PN94 .E2 1983

A companion to postcolonial studies, edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. V51 .C75 2000

Sedgwick, Peter R. Descartes to Derrida: an introduction to European philosophy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. B791 .S39 2001

Brooker, Peter. Cultural theory: a glossary. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. HM101 .B775 1999

Smith, Philip. Cultural theory: an introduction. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2001. HM621 .S57 2001

Israel, Nico. Outlandish: writing between exile and diaspora. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. PR888 .E97 I87 2000

Trifonas, Peter Pericles. The ethics of writing: Derrida, deconstruction, and pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. LB14.7 .T75 2000

Kronick, Joseph G. Derrida and the future of literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. PN75 .D45 K76 1999

Howells, Christina. Derrida: deconstruction from phenomenology to ethics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999. B2430 .D484 H69 1998

Wolfreys, Julian. The rhetoric of affirmative resistance: dissonant identities from Carroll to Derrida. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. PN81 .W56 1997

Loesberg, Jonathan. Aestheticism and deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De Man. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. PN98 .D43 L64 1991

Melville, Stephen. Philosophy beside itself: on deconstruction and modernism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. PN98 .D43 M45 1986

Frankland, Graham. Freud's literary culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. PN56 .P92 F66 2000

Bowie, Malcolm. Psychoanalysis and the future of theory. Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell, 1994. BF175 .B635 1994

Terdiman, Richard. Present past: modernity and the memory crisis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. PQ295 .M63 T47 1993

Bowie, Malcolm. Freud, Proust, and Lacan: theory as fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. PQ2631 .R63 Z545254 1987

Rabaté, Jean-Michel. Jacques Lacan: psychoanalysis and the subject of literature. New York: Palgrave, 2001. PN98 .P75 R33 2001

Stoltzfus, Ben. Lacan and literature: purloined pretexts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. PN98 .P75 S76 1996

Chaitin, Gilbert D. Rhetoric and culture in Lacan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. PN98 .H57 C43 1996

Mellard, James M. Using Lacan, reading fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. PS371 .M46 1991

Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange, Seyla Benhabib; introduction by Linda Nicholson. New York: Routledge, 1995. HQ1190 .S7813 1995

Performativity and performance, edited with an introduction by Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. New York: Routledge, 1995. P95.55 .P47 1995

Power/gender: social relations in theory and practice, edited by H. Lorraine Radtke and Henderikus J. Stam. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994. HQ1075 .P68 1994

On literary theory and philosophy: a cross-disciplinary encounter, edited by Richard Freadman and Lloyd Reinhardt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. PN49 .O48 1991

American criticism in the poststructuralist age, edited by Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1981. PN99 .U5 A38

Robbins, Jill. Altered reading: Levinas and literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. B2430 .L484 R63 1999

Gibson, Andrew. Postmodernity, ethics and the novel: from Leavis to Levinas. New York: Routledge, 1999. PR888 .P69 G53 1999

Constructing masculinity, edited by Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson. New York: Routledge, 1995. HQ1090 .C66 1995

During, Simon. Foucault and literature: towards a genealogy of writing. New York: Routledge, 1992. PR21 .D87 1992

Bannet, Eve Tavor. Structuralism and the logic of dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. PN98 .S7 T37 1989

Reading de Man reading, edited by Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. PN75 .D45 R43 1989

Library Assistance

If you need additional assistance, please don’t hesitate to go the Evans Reference Desk for help. They are located on the 1^st floor of Evans Library. You may also contact them via phone at 845-5741 or via email at lib-help@tamu.edu.

If you want specialized help, you may schedule an appointment with me, as liaison librarian to the Department of English, and I will be happy to help you with your research topic, recommend sources and introduce you to searching some of the electronic materials.

Candace R. Benefiel
Associate Professor
979-862-1044
cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu